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Museum of the City of Skopje

The ruined old railway station, its clock still stopped at the moment of the 1963 earthquake.

Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0
Open
Closed Mondays
Price
Free
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Mito Hadživasilev Jasmin, 1000 SkopjeDirections
Getting There
A 5-minute walk from Macedonia Square.

Why Go

At 5:17 on the morning of July 26, 1963, an earthquake destroyed most of Skopje and killed more than a thousand people. The station's broken shell, with its clock frozen at that minute, holds the city museum.

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